Originally Posted by
WhyFi
Yeah, this was a topic of discussion the other day - between the terrain and the traffic controls in the Twin Cities metro, there's very little opportunity for setting a decent 20 minute power figure. The other day, I managed to average just under my FTP for 20 minutes, but I can certainly do better than that on the trainer.
For that matter, even setting a 3 min figure is tough around here. A website that I use for tracking my workload (intervals.icu) will look at efforts 3 minutes and longer for estimating FTP... so I naturally want to find a 3+ minute hill to hammer on
Still haven't found one within 30 miles, though.
Yeah, Ohio and High Bridge/Smith have intersections that break up your effort. I think that the coulee south out of Afton should be good for 3 minutes. Definitely no intersections and though it's got a false flat, it's a pretty steady climb. The KOM is 3:02, but to approach that you'd have to be a cat1 or cat 2.
https://www.strava.com/segments/1912611